NEEDHAM NEEDLE-FIRE GUN
FROM MUZZLE TO CENTER The transition from muzzle-loader to breech-loader took place relatively quickly in the 1860s. Within a few years the age-old method of lo...
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ALAIN LOVENBERG – MAÎTRE GRAVEUR
The Golden Age For centuries, Liège was the most important firearms forge in the world. Already since the 16th century, weapons were produced here for both mili...
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WILLIAM MOORE & GREY GUNMAKERS, LONDON
The story of a famous London gunmaking brand, founded more than two hundred years ago and its rebirth in modern times. In 1808, gunmaker William Moore started...
John Moses Browning The Father of the Modern Firearm | HuntMag.eu
Text and photo: Jens Ulrik Høgh Vast tomes seem to have been written about just about every personality in the world of hunting, and most of these books are bas...
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SIEVERT NIELSEN FROM ZANE GREY
by Miles Gilbert SIEVERT NIELSEN FROM ZANE GREY That was the inscription on a ‘95 Winchester carbine held by Tommy Hunt when I met him near Parks, Arizona on th...
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3 DOORS FROM PICCADILLY
A rare Hammergun of London Gunmaker William Moore & Grey. The gun is a 16 bore using the Grey patent. At the first glance it looks like a Pinfire Gun, but t...
BRIAN NICHOLSON – LAST OF OLD AFRICA
Good news for German readers: The tales of one of the last famous hunters in Old Africa, Brian Nicholson, are published by Neumann-Neudamm Verlag. Originally it...
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WESTLEY RICHARDS – OR NOT?
Picture above: Andrew Maloch and Charles Smith both obtained whole guns, or very nearly so from WR. WHO MADE THIS WESTLEY RICHARDS? OR, WHO MADE THIS, WESTLEY R...
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THE GUNS AND GUNMAKERS OF ST. PETERSBURG
A LOOK AT THE LITTLE-KNOWN ARTISANS OF PRE-REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA by Marc Gettemans Little information about Russia’s sporting arms makers of the era of Czars has...
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PURDEY FROM THE KING
This story was written by Richard Brewster and published in the Shooting Sportsman under the title “A Father-Son Purdey”: Many thanks to Shooting Sp...